Corn-husking device



(N0 Mo del.)

w F LILLIE OORN HUSKING DBVIGE. N0.605,711.

Patented Sept. 26, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. LILLIE, OB HAMILTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-I-IALF T0 FREDERICK D. KEES, OF BEATRIOE, NEBRASKA.

CORN-HUSKING DEVISE.

SPEGIIEIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 505,711, dated September 26, 1893.

Applieation filed ]Eebruary 6, 1893. Serial N0. 461,179. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom z't mag concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. LILLIE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hamilton, in the county of Gage and State of Nebraska, have invented oertain new and useful Improvements in (Jorn-Husking Devicee; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, elear, and exact description of the invention, whiob will enable otbers skilled in the art 130 whieb it appertains to make and use the same, referenoe being had t0 the acoompanying drawings, wbieb form a part of tbis speoifioation.

My invention relates to improvements in eorn-busking devioes of that onaraoter or description Whieh are adapted 120 be attaehed to the band of the operator. 4

The object o1": the invention is to provide an improved construetion ot a oorn-husking device, which shall be very eflicient in use; and it oonsists in the novel eonstruotion hereinafter fully desoribed and elairned.

In the acoornpanying drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a eorn husker coustructed in aceordance Witb rny invention, showing the sarne attaebed to a band. Fig. 2 is a sixnilar view of the Same, showing it detaebed; and Fig. 3 is a sirnilar view of the husking plate, detaohed from the leather strap or band.

In the said drawings, the reference numeral 1 designates a plate of-metal or any other suitable material, curved o1 rounded, as sbown, so as to conform 130 the shape of the inside of the palm near the wrist and base of the tbumb, and formed with an arm 2, slightly curved, whiob extends rearwardly to near the wrist. This arm, as well as arme 3and 4, are made integral with the platze, and are seeured by means of rivets to a leather band or pad fitting upon the thumb, and fastened 110 the wrist by means of a strap 5, and buokle 6. It is obvious, however, that the plate can be seeured to an ordinary glove or mitten, if desired.

011 the side or portidn of the plate l, oppo site to arm 2, is a hook 7, formed integral with said plate and extending rearwardly in the direction of said arm. 'Ihis sligbtly ourved arm 2 has an important function, in this, that it aots as a proteetive shieldl or guard for the base of the tburnb and wrist, preventing cbafing of these parts by tberough busks during the operation 0f busking. In addition to this, it acts as a braee and gives stability to the busking-hook 7, whicb, it will be seen,is integral or in one piece tberewith; and, in conneetion witb the part or arm 4, in forme a means for securely fastening the husking-plate upon the band or strap 5 by xneans of wbiob the device is attacbed to the band of the operator. It will thus be observed tbat the part 2 forms a very important and essential part of the device as a whole.

The Operation is as follows: The deviee is seourely fastened to the band of the operator, the tbumb projeeting between the curved arms 3 and 4, and the arm or shield 2 extending baekwardly over the upper part of the tbumb 130 near the wrjst; the book being upon the side of the thumb nearthe base. The operator now grasps the ear 0f oorn at the t0p by the stem as it bange upon the stalk or is found in the bin, and tben reacbes out with the right band and draws the same back, so that the hook pieroes the husks and pulls them to one side, thus exposing the ear. When this is done, the fingers of the rigbt band are in a position to grasp the exposed ear, and with one motion of the band it can be detaobed from the busks.

I am aware that it is n0t new to provide a corn-busking deviee formed with a hook and adapted to be attaohed to a handand do not broadly olaim such, my invention being limited to 1ny peculiar oonstruction, whereby the busks can be removed from an ear of corn by a single movement of the band, and whereby I provide means for tboroughly and effeetually protecting the wrist and thumb of the Operator, wbieh said means also add to the stability and strengtb of the device as a whole.

Having thus desoribed my invention, wbat 1 elaim is 5 The improved corn=-busking device herein shown and deseribed, consisting of a single In testimony that I c1aim the foregoing as plate shaped to form the arms 3 and 4, and my own I have hereunto affixed my signature hook 7 between said arms, and provided with in presence of two witnesses.

the downwardly-projecting curved and inte- WILLIAM F. LILLIE. 5 gral shield or wrist-guard 2 and with means Vitnesses:

for its attaehment to the strap 01 band 5; sub- SAML. RINCKER,

stantially as set forth. GEO. L. GRIGGS. 

